A Walk Across the Rooftops with Trisha Brown

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Watch in HQ if you have the bandwidth! The title track (and lead track/ track 1) of Blue Niles sensational debut album, A Walk Across the Rooftops (1983), is a twitchy, bonkers romantic tune that hasnt been on youtube, but needs to be. We hereby fill that gap. The visuals are manipulations of photos (mainly gathered from across the web) of Trisha Browns choreography, focusing on her stunning, rooftop, quasi environmental art pieces of the early 1970s. (Thats Brown herself at, e.g., 2:45, 3:05, 3:33. The famous rooftop shots are by Babette Mangolte. The famous man walking down the side of a building shot is by Caroline Gooden. The famous Trisha rehearsing shot is by Guy Delahaye.) Browns stuff is amazing, and very mathematical at bottom (see some of her algebraic drawing art at 3:01), which we like. She also managed to give post modern a relatively good name in dance (just as Richard Foreman did in theater in NYC), certainly compared to its well deserved stinking up the joint reputation in philosophy, poetry, architecture, and the like. I feel sure that anyone who likes (or once liked) The Blue Nile would like Browns dance company (in fact, no one interested in the arts or mental expansion more generally should pass up an opportunity to see either Browns or Merce Cunninghams companies). Probably the converse is true too. At any rate, I hope this vid. will spark the odd interesting cross pollination. Note: Theres a slight audio error at the very beginning of the vid.. In a perfect world wed correct it, but youtube isnt archival/reference quality (the underlying photos here are often quite rough jpegs too after all), so lets just embrace the imperfection!

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